Fuel truck bomb kills more than 40 in northern Syria

A fuel truck bomb in a market in northern Syria killed at least 46 people including Turkish-backed rebel fighters, according to US officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The explosion on Tuesday in Afrin came as people went shopping in preparing to break the Ramadan fast, according to the US state department, which denounced the attack as a “cowardly act of evil”.
Photos published by the Syrian civil defence rescue workers, also identified as the White Helmets, showed firefighters battling to extinguish flames amid gutted buildings and rescue workers removing charred bodies away from the scene on makeshift stretchers.
Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the British-based Observatory, a monitor with a network of sources inside Syria, said “at least 46” people had been killed and 50 wounded, some critically, adding that the death toll could rise.